--- Eliezer Yudkowsky <sentience@pobox.com> wrote: >
>
> The world must be saved, and it is a technical
> problem that requires mad
> scientists. Not a mystical problem that requires a
> guru. Just a
> particularly severe mundane problem, that ordinary
> mundane reality happened
> to throw at us. Altruism toward humans in general
> is all that is required.
> I don't have to be perfect sweetness and light.
> (Perfectly following the
> Way of Bayes is still a job requirement.)
>
> --
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
> http://intelligence.org/> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for
> Artificial Intelligence

"There is no odor so bad as that which arises from
goodness tainted. ... If I knew for a certainty that a
man was coming to my house with the conscious design
of doing me good, I should run for my life."

Thoreau, Walden

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- Gen. John Stark